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Who Really Gave Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino That Black Eye? His Mother!

"I'm going to let you in on a secret, mom is the one who got him," Mike and Frank's older brother Marc exclusively told me earlier today when I caught up with the family to chat about their new reality show, The Sorrentinos. "She got him with a left. Mom's the tough one."

"Yeah," Linda said. "I broke my finger. I just got it out of the sling."

Linda (who is so petite we wouldn't be surprised if one of Mike's biceps is bigger than her waistline) insists she didn't mean to hurt her son: "I was trying to break him and Frank up and I think I missed and…"

And then Mike ended up bruised and bloodied and in jail. The former Jersey Shore star was arrested after his June 17 fight with Frank at his new tanning salon, Boca Club Tanning. He posted $500 bail and released from behind bars after being charged with simple assault.

Mike claimed at the time that he wasn't happy with how Frank was running the salon.

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